Union Minister of Commerce & Industry Suresh Prabhu said on Wednesday that India's export sector is showing strong performance in recent months.

Speaking at an event organized by export body FIEO on the occasion of launch of a mobile app 'Niryat Mitra' for exporters, Prabhu said that the exports are showing good sign and registering increase at the rate of 20%.

He said that the government is working on to further increase the ease of doing business.

The Minister further stated that the app will provide big opportunity to everybody and help promote export interests in the country.

He invited the industry to make the most of the app and take to exports.

He also said the Human Resource tool of the app enables candidates with interest in the international trade sector to register and apply against the vacancies arising in the sector.

Companies can also search the profiles of the candidates and engage them.

The app works internally to map the ITC HS code of other countries with that of India and provides all the required data without the users bothering about the HS code of any country.

Presently the app comes with the data of 87 countries.